All relationships are complicated. Very complicated. No relationship is simple.
South African filmmaker Kagiso Lediga stars and directs the romantic comedy Catching Feelings, which is making its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival this month.
The film stars almost an entirely black South African cast including Pearl Thusi (Quantico), Andrew Buckland (Shot Down), Akin Omotoso (Blood Diamond), Precious Makgaretsa (Blitzpatrollie), Kate Liquorish (Eye in the Sky), Tessa Jubber (Wallander), and Tyson Cross (The Avengers).
Here’s the synopsis of the film:
Max Matshane (Lediga), is a 34-year-old author who wrote a South African bestseller in his 20s, but whose star has waned and now finds himself as a disgruntled professor, teaching creative writing at the local university. Max lives in a leafy Johannesburg suburb with his exceptionally beautiful wife, Samkelo (Thusi), who career is on the rise as a reputable journalist. Despite their love for each other, their relationship has hit a rut.
South African filmmaker Kagiso Lediga stars and directs the romantic comedy Catching Feelings, which is making its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival this month.
The film stars almost an entirely black South African cast including Pearl Thusi (Quantico), Andrew Buckland (Shot Down), Akin Omotoso (Blood Diamond), Precious Makgaretsa (Blitzpatrollie), Kate Liquorish (Eye in the Sky), Tessa Jubber (Wallander), and Tyson Cross (The Avengers).
Here’s the synopsis of the film:
Max Matshane (Lediga), is a 34-year-old author who wrote a South African bestseller in his 20s, but whose star has waned and now finds himself as a disgruntled professor, teaching creative writing at the local university. Max lives in a leafy Johannesburg suburb with his exceptionally beautiful wife, Samkelo (Thusi), who career is on the rise as a reputable journalist. Despite their love for each other, their relationship has hit a rut.
- 6/18/2017
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
★★☆☆☆ In the late 1980s, maverick filmmaker Andrew Worsdale gained immediate cult status when his debut feature, the ultra-provocative Shot Down (1988), was banned by the apartheid government in South Africa. Having maintained radio silence for the best part of two decades, the director returned to screens to great acclaim, with his new film, Durban Poison (2013) plays as part of the London Film Festival's 'Thrill' strand. A Bonnie and Clyde-inflected tale of high passion and dangerous criminality, Worsdale's latest sadly fails to really cover any new ground and presents its tired tale within a confused narrative structure.
The film's plot is loosely based on the exploits of real-life murderous lovers Charmaine Phillips and Pieter Grundlingh, who embarked on a drug-fuelled killing spree in South African in the early eighties. Reimagined as Joline (first time actress Cara Roberts) and Piet (Brandon Auret) the couple begin the film in custody with their wrongdoings...
The film's plot is loosely based on the exploits of real-life murderous lovers Charmaine Phillips and Pieter Grundlingh, who embarked on a drug-fuelled killing spree in South African in the early eighties. Reimagined as Joline (first time actress Cara Roberts) and Piet (Brandon Auret) the couple begin the film in custody with their wrongdoings...
- 10/11/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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